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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'A hitch in the plan',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/08/08.jpg" alt="A small fountain" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Huh.
			That&apos;s an interesting moral.
			Don&apos;t hurt everyone around you, because if you tick enough people off, one of them&apos;s going to turn you into a mangrove tree.
			It&apos;s an oddly-specific yet unrealistic consequence.
			It&apos;s an interesting story though, that&apos;s for sure.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I find it strange that people assume Voltaire to be an atheist from that quote.
			I mean, seriously, look at the quote.
			He says that if a god <strong>*didn&apos;t*</strong> exist, it would be necessary to invent a god.
			This clearly implies that he thinks there <strong>*is*</strong> a god, and as such, no god need be invented.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I agree, Voltaire was the most interesting this week.
			Personally, I think Yangming&apos;s ideas were pretty backwards.
			Wiredu was interesting, but didn&apos;t give us much to go off of.
			Much of what he discussed was about the recovery of lost philosophy, rather than stuff actually relating to said philosophy once found.
			Many of Voltaire&apos;s ideas were well-grounded though.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The word &quot;invented&quot; could be used to mean developed and built, but I don&apos;t think that&apos;s what Voltaire is talking about.
			&quot;Invented&quot; can also mean made up.
			He&apos;s saying that if there didn&apos;t already exist a real god, we would need to make up a god.
			Of course, personally, I think we already did that.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Personally, I disagree that people are naturally good.
			On the whole, we&apos;re all rather terrible.
			We have to work at being good.
			That said, most people seem to fail to even try.
		</p>
		<p>
			You make a good point about the discovery of self though.
			You have to figure out who you are before you can properly discover what you need to do.
			Who are you?
			What are your beliefs?
			What are your motives?
			What are your goals?
			Without these vital pieces of information how can you possibly know what you need to do?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest</h2>
	<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_3.0/minetest.net./weblog/2018/08/08.jpg" alt="The beginnings of my tunnel into the ground; first I have to built up through the water" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="600"/>
	<p>
		It just occurred to me that sand used to be a countable element.
		While four sand could be crafted into one sandstone, sandstone only dropped one sand when mined.
		This meant the drop could not be crafted back into the dropper, so players couldn&apos;t continually place and pick up the item to get unlimited points.
		That&apos;s the definition of what should be counted by <code>minestats</code>.
		But ...
		If sand is a countable element, my current plan for the Alchemy Project dictates that I should account for it when coming up with recipes, and I should revive that element if it was eliminated in a later version.
		It was a stupid drop though.
		It always was.
		I was <strong>*ecstatic*</strong> when they fixed the drop, which I perceived at the time as a bug.
		I&apos;d really rather not bring that back.
		I have to either re-evaluate my plan.
		I&apos;ll need to find a better one or I need to bring back one of the stupidest parts of ancient Minetest.
	</p>
	<p>
		Hmm.
		The way Minestats works is that if items in a drop cannot be stacked together, they&apos;re counted as separate drops.
		If I add back the sand drop, I can pair it with a second item of some sort.
		I&apos;m not sure what to add, but all it has to do is offset the value loss.
		It needs to be in some way desirable to the player.
		The drop doesn&apos;t need to happen 100% of the time, either.
	</p>
</section>
END
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